There is limited information about the decomposition of leaf litter from subtropical fruit trees despite their potential for managing soil fertility. The aim of this study was to quantify the effect of quality on decomposition ...

The precise meaning of the concept of (political) revolution remains semantically contested.
According to Arslanian (2013:127) this concept “is often used liberally, applied to everything from
the ‘Social Media Revolution’ ...

Depression is a debilitating heterogenous disorder and the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Alterations in monoaminergic neurotransmission, including noradrenergic, have been implicated in the etiology of depression. ...

Companies incur significant amounts of share issue costs to raise finance for their operations. The South African Revenue Service (SARS) currently contends that value added tax (VAT) is not deductible on share issue costs. ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) has become an accepted treatment for motor symptoms in a subset of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. The mechanisms why DBS is effective are incompletely ...

The South African local government system has a number of shortcomings, two of which relate to the role of local government in the deepening of participatory democracy and the position of local government in a system of ...

Dissociation between b-adrenergic behavioral and physiological defensive active coping (AC) responses was associated
with cardiometabolic risk in urban but not rural African males. Whether this is partly driven by underlying ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to define employability within the psychological literature with a focus upon perceived employability. Design/methodology/approach – To achieve the aim, the paper defines five objectives ...

Currently an entire unregulated industry of Environmental Control Officers (ECOs) is active
at various construction sites across South Africa. While the expected role of ECOs is
generally to ensure that environmental ...

The processes contributing to degradation of characteristics of membrane-electrode assemblies (MEA) of water electrolyzers with solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) are considered. Particularly, the life tests of an electrolysis ...

In this study the ex-situ and in-situ behavior of acid–base blend membranes from sulfonated polyethersulfone
and a partially fluorinated sulfonated polymer (prepared by condensation of decafluorobipenyl with
bisphenol ...

Introduction
Although the relationship of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) with obesity has been well established, the relationship of PAI-1 with different body fat distribution patterns is less clear particularly ...

In this two part article J.M. Coetzee's eponymous novel, Disgrace (1999) and the 2008-film version thereof will be briefly discussed with a focus on its use of and reference to the Afrikaans farm novel. In White Writing ...